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About Lorrie Moore
American writer, critic, and essayist
Lorrie Moore is an American writer, critic, and essayist best known for her short stories. Since 1984, she has also taught creative writing. Her fiction has brought her major awards, and her work is widely associated with the short story form. Alongside her writing, she has maintained a long teaching career in creative writing, and her essays and criticism add to a body of work shaped by close attention to language and form.
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- “Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'”Lorrie Moore
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- “They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.”Lorrie Moore
- “Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And som…”Lorrie Moore
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- “English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver…”Laura Fraser
- “so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about…”Maurice Sendak
- “Wrestling is a universal language. The moves, the facial expressions, most people understand.”Shinsuke Nakamura
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Books by Lorrie Moore
A Gate at the Stairs
2010
Bark
2014
Who will run the frog hospital?
1994
See what can be done
2018
Birds of America
1998